FlashApe

i like to keep up with sites like digg, reddit and the like.  Now popurls.com gathers up the top stories form all those sites and brings them into one place.  Pretty cool, they should add ebaumsworld though.  It’s really cut down on my websurfing though, i need some new sites to visit.

my wordpress rss feed url that i was using took a poop on me…so I had to switch the url. another post to apologize for too many posts…smart,eh?

I was filling out a form to download a product when I came across this question…
Are you interested in hot bi-synchronous replication for MySQL databases?

or, “why bartering never pays off in the long run”. I set up a dedicated server about three years ago for a client of mine. In exchange, we agreed I would be able to host my site on the server. Had a good deal, i could install anything I wanted, full access, etc. Eventually, I lost contact with the client, but still had my site on the server, and used it frequently (my blog was hosted on there, email too). Last week they moved their server, and forgot my site was still hosted on there. Well that kinda sucks, I thought, but no big deal, I’ll just call them up grab everything I need, and take it and move it to my own (new) server. Call them up…nope, no go. They can’t find any of my files…no chance of accessing the database for my blog either. Ouch.

I’m hoping I can find some sort of cached feed in google of my old posts to import into the new blog.   Oh well, at least I can try out wordpress now, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.

Don’t be stupid like me..back up your blog regularly (as wella s anything else you might not be willing to lose).

Got pointed to this yesterday. It’s called Project for the New American Century, and here’s their statement from their homepage:

bq. The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.

Apparently the idea is to create a “unipolar” world in which America dominates, particularly by means of military force. From what I can gather, this project is heavily tied into the Bush administration (still getting the exact details on that, but I was told people such as Cheney and Rumsfeld were part of the original proposition), and is a big reason for the invasion of Iraq (and there are already rumblings that Iran is next).

There’s another site which “exposes” the Project for the News American Century, and that is at pnac.info. The site is “An effort to investigate, analyze, and expose the Project for the New American Century, and its plan for a ‘unipolar’ world.”

I found both to be an extremely interesting read and a huge eye-opener on the state of the world today.

Im pretty much still getting my feet wet with mx04, so this has probbaly been blogged about before. I was creating a couple of text fields, username/password, for a login form, and trying to use onKillFocus to replace the text in a text field if the user left the text field blank.

The problem I was running into was that after you clicked off the text field, the focus would immediately be reset to the text field that you were trying to click out of. I was trying everything, even try to manually set a new focues using Selection.setFocus(), but it will still snap right back to the text field.

Turns out I had a component in my library that i was experimenting with early on and forgot about (i never really use mm’s components). mx04 components use a new class called FocusManager. From the help:

bq. You can use the Focus Manager to specify the order in which components receive focus when a user presses the Tab key to navigate in an application. You can also use the FocusManager class to set a button in your document that receives keyboard input when a user presses Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).

That was throwing a monkey wrench into my whole onKillFocus for the text fields. I just removed the component fromt he library, and everythign was fine. also, you can manually turn off the focus manager with:

bc[as]. focusManager.enabled = false;